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Instructions for using Jboss

User Manual

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How to Deploy on JBoss

1. Write your beans and package them in an ejb-jar file. 2. Write your servlets/JSPs and package them in a war file. 3. Add a Class-Path attribute to your war files MANIFEST.MF file to reference your beans package. for detailed information on that see J2EE Deployment specification.

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How to Deploy in JBoss

4. Package your application in an ear file. An ear file is a jar archive which contains: Your jar files Your war files A deployment descriptor for your application.
This file must be named "application.xml", and must be located in the META-INF directory in the ear archive. This file tells JBoss which modules are EJBs, which ones are web modules, and the context paths for the web-modules.

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Sample Application.xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <application> <display-name>My application</display-name> <module> <web> <web-uri>webmodule.war</web-uri> <context root>/servlets</context-root> </web> </module> <module> <ejb>beans.jar</ejb> </module> </application>

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Deploying in JBoss
5. Deploy your ear file.
Option 1: Copy your ear file to JBOSS_HOME/deploy (wow!)

Write once Deploy AnyWhere!!

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Steps A
Log on to the system using username and password of UTD Log on to ssh root@jboss Password : root123
Screen shot on next page

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Step B
To set path and start the Jboss and cloudscape run the following command (every time server goes down)
export J2EE_HOME=/usr/j2sdkee1.3/ export ANT_HOME=/usr/Ant/ PATH=$PATH:/usr/Cloudscape_3.6/:/usr/j2sdkee1.3/bin/ nohup cloudscape1098 -start& cd /usr/jboss/JBoss-2.4.1_Jetty-3.1.RC9-1 nohup sh run.sh&

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Steps for Pet store Application

1. Download the Pet Store
You can get the source from Sun's J2EE Download Page. It's in the "J2EE Blueprints" package. Download the 1.1.2 version. Unpack it anywhere. The root directory of the Pet Store demo is referred to below as $PETSTORE (#stan/petstore1.1.2/jps1.1.2/)

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Step 2 For Pet store Application

2.Download the JBoss Pet Store patch file
Running the Pet Store demo in Jboss requires several minor changes to deployment files in the Pet Store application (.ear) file. The current patch file, jps112-01.zip is currently available in the documentation files section of the manual.

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Step 3
3. Configure JBoss
You need a servlet container to run the Java Pet Store. If you're using the JBoss-Jetty or Jboss Tomcat releases, the server is preconfigured. DO not need to do do this step

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Step 4
4. Rebuild the Pet Store application (petstore.ear)
The following step overwrites several files in the Pet Store application sources. You may want to make a separate copy of the JBoss version of the Pet Store. This step adds the file jboss-web.xml to the WEB-INF directory in petstore.war, modifies the serverType in the web.xml file of that directory to identify the Jboss server to the application, and modifies the application.xml file in the META-INF directory of petstore.ear.

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Step 4A
4A. Copy the jps112-01.zip file to the root directory ($PETSTORE) of your Pet Store distribution. Change to this directory and unzip the file.
Note: This will overwrite the original web.xml file.

>cd $PETSTORE (#stan/petstore1.1.2/jps1.1.2/) unzip jps1.1.2-01.zip

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Logged on and directory having petstore example

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Step 4B
4B. Rebuild the Pet Store application.
Run build.sh or build.bat in the $PETSTORE/src/petstore/build directory. The result is a new petstore.ear in the $PETSTORE/src/petstore/build directory. This is the file you deploy by copying it to $JBOSS_HOME/deploy

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Build directory having all three war, jar and ear files

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Step 5
5. Prepare the Database
Modify the Cloudscape startup command to use port 1098.

You do this by adding -port port_number. For example:

java ... RmiJdbc.RJJdbcServer -port 1098 COM.cloudscape.core.JDBCDriver Start Cloudscape.

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Deploy directory in JBoss home path

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Step 6
6. Add JARS to JBoss
Copy your DB driver JAR to the lib/ext directory of your JBoss installation ($JBOSS_HOME). For Cloudscape, copy client.jar and RmiJdbc.jar to the lib/ext directory.

Copy tools.jar from the J2 SDK to the lib/ext directory of your JBoss installation ($JBOSS_HOME).

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Step 7
7. Start Jboss Already done by doing Step B
Start JBoss and copy the new petstore.ear to the deploy directory. You should see JBoss deploy the Pet Store EJBs.

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Step 8
8.Run the Pet Store
Point your browser to http://jboss.utdallas.edu:8080/estore

To start pet store example

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Problems faced
1.When user logged off the system, initially the JBoss application was stopped and the application can not be displayed.
In order to solve this problem, use nohup command
For Jboss: nohup sh run.sh For cloudscape: usr/cloudscape_3.6# nohup cloudscape start

Output of nohup in nohup.out file > Tail f nohup.out

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Problems faced
2. Cloudscape and JBoss were both using same port number 1099 and as a result it was not possible for application to run
We changed the java commands in the cloudscape executable file as per the new java command and saved it as 'cloudscape1098' so that whenever we type 'cloudscape1098 -start', cloudscape starts on port 1098. Even then JBoss couldn't connect to Cloudscape. The reason was that there is a jboss.jcml configuration file in /usr/jboss/JBoss-2.4.1_Jetty-3.1.RC9-1/jboss/conf/jetty directory. It contains a section where JDBC tries to connect to Hypersonic database. This had to be changed to make JDBC connection to Cloudscape.

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Problems Faced
3.Application is killed when server restarted
To restart the pet-store anytime, all need to be done is run the following commands: export J2EE_HOME=/usr/j2sdkee1.3/ export ANT_HOME=/usr/Ant/ PATH=$PATH:/usr/Cloudscape_3.6/:/usr/j2sdkee1.3/bin/ nohup cloudscape1098 -start& cd /usr/jboss/JBoss-2.4.1_Jetty-3.1.RC9-1 nohup sh run.sh&